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火眼金睛 Fire Eyes Saw Through Her
前日在那黑松林綁的那個女子，老孫火眼金睛，把他認透了，你們都認做好人。今日吃和尚的也是他，攝師父的也是他。前日在那黑松林绑的那个女子，老孙火眼金睛，把他认透了，你们都认做好人。今日吃和尚的也是他，摄师父的也是他。
逐句解 Line by line
前日在那黑松林綁的那個女子，老孫火眼金睛，把他認透了，你們都認做好人。
前日在那黑松林绑的那个女子，老孙火眼金睛，把他认透了，你们都认做好人。
"That woman tied up in the Black Pine Wood the other day — old Sun has fire eyes and golden pupils, and I saw clean through her, and the lot of you took her for a decent person.
那 is nà at both appearances, pointing back at a scene everyone remembers, and 子 takes the literary zǐ in the word for the woman. The fire-gold eyes were burnt into him in Lord Lao's furnace and they see through any disguise.
今日吃和尚的也是他，攝師父的也是他。
今日吃和尚的也是他，摄师父的也是他。
The one eating the monks today was her too, and the one who carried off our master was her too."
Two clauses built identically, each ending on the same two characters — was her too. The repetition is the argument.
The reveal, and it is not a discovery. He knew in the first chapter of this arc, said so out loud, was overruled by his master, and has carried it since.
The two matched clauses are the closing of the case. Everything that has happened in this monastery — the six dead monks, the abduction — traces back to a rope being cut in a wood two days ago.
His eyes are the chapter's quiet tragedy. They are the one instrument in the company that cannot be fooled, and they have been overruled by a man with a kind heart and no discernment at all.